Highlighting the obtuse, the slanted and sometimes just plain ignorant writings found in The Gray Lady

Month: June 2016

Sunday in Sacramento a small group of Neo-Nazi’s attempted to legally stand around California’s Capitol Building and spout stupid slogans.

They were over-run by a much larger group of black-hooded Neo-Anarchists who started swinging clubs, beat up on some KCRA camera crew members while screaming “no pictures” and apparently ended up on the worse end of it with lots of stab wounds inflicted by the ugly Neo-Nazi’s. No one said Nazi’s were nice.

In one picture featured on numerous web sites one protester – a “good?” one – with Guy Fawkes mask askew, knealt beside a stabbed and bleeding man.

Yes, all those teens so fascinated by 2006’s dystopian “V For Vendetta” ran out and bought Fawkes masks, stopped voting and started believing in every conspiracy theory and that they could solve all their perceived problems through violence.

Sounds like parenting issues to us.

Just like all those little boys who believe in Adolf Hitler and his whack ways.

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It happened down in San Diego at the Trump gathering when rioting hooligans took that event as an excuse to exercise mob rule.

Many in the British press – including supposed feminists – are calling any concern over Bartoli’s condition “sexist” and throwing down the full weight of their damning gauntlets of condemnation toward any who see danger in Bartoli’s anorexic state.

In fact, that HuffPost writer somehow brings her twisted intellect around to calling it “body-shaming” when fans show concern over Bartoli’s physical condition. She says:

“Let’s get one thing straight, if you write a tweet about someone’s physique, no matter what their shape or size, it’s not a sign of you showing your concern about their health or wellbeing.

It’s body-shaming, it’s dangerous and it needs to stop.”

– Rachel Moss (UK’s HuffPost)

Under such logic streams, this shrink-brained HuffPost writer Moss would see a junkie in the gutter injecting smack in their veins, smile wistfully, and congratulate said addict on their alternate “lifestyle choice.”

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Americans should know that British women have taken the strangely impolitic issue of “body-shaming” and elevated it to the same level as murder and genocide.

It should be pointed out that the newly elected mayor of London just banned posters of women in bikinis in public transport areas of the city because images of women in bikinis were deemed body-shaming by their very nature.

(Many men thought posters of David Beckham should be banned because they felt body-shamed in the face of Beckham’s physique. Yes, they had a valid point.)

Yes. This body-shaming thing is a contrived issue created out of the newly-minted perceived slights of those who can see no farther than their own navels, those who forever are looking for the slings and arrows tossed their way that hurt their feelings and keep them from developing into whole human beings.

That is, spoiled coddled brats.

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Marion Bartoli, we hope you regain your center and your health. During your career there were those who doubted your talents – and those cruel ones who critisized your looks. But there were millions more who always loved and supported you, and still do.

Scanning the entire media’s very negative reaction to Britain’s Brexit vote it is natural for the public to ask: Just who’s side are you on?

Is it wrong for British voters to react negatively when their government has relinquished their immigration and border controls to the EU?

Americans need to ask: If the United States decided to open its borders, immigration and trade to Mexico, Columbia, Guatemala, Venezuela, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica…how do you think Americans would react? Essentially, that is what the EU is. A Free-Trade, free-movement zone among European nations who supposedly share common borders and common goals and values.

And it has reached a point where a simple majority of British citizens have decided that that agreement – negotiated decades ago under different social and economic conditions – has deteriorated and is detrimental to the well-being of their country.

The sky is not going to fall after the Brexit vote. In fact, conditions were built in to the EU agreement that allowed the orderly exit of Britain if they chose to do so.

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The EU is a contractual trade group of countries. British citizens have just decided – like hundreds of other countries – that the EU no longer represents their interests.

We wonder why all the US media, knowing that US citizens would never give up their rights to such a disorganized group like the EU, are damning the British citizens who have just voted that way.

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PS: And just for another scare factor, much of the US media is playing up British fringe politician Nigel Farage as a “big winner” with the Brexit vote.

That’s about as relevant as saying Rush Limbaugh has suddenly become a US spokesman ever since Donald Trump got the GOP nomination.

No sooner than Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka had Corey Lewandowaski fired, CNN’s head honcho Jeff Zucker had a private meeting with creepster Lewandowski and gave him a new job on CNN as a paid shill for Donald Trump.

Apparently, CNN staffers – like most of America – think Lewandowski is a creep. They’re trying to get rid of him.

On Friday night it took 15 minutes before Maddow ever got to the point that her program was about Britain’s Brexit vote.

And she got it all wrong.

Maddow set up her entire segment with Turkish genocide(!), WWI, WWII and then she brought out…Winston Churchill as a proponent of a European Union because if they didn’t forge a union they would destroy each other in a war.

Well, Maddow, the EU is about economics. It has nothing to do with Winston’s 1946 worries about internecine European wars. The EU has always been about – economics.

But facts never seem to get in the way of Rachel Maddow’s throw-it-on-the-wall-and-see-if-it-sticks program.

And Maddow’s slanted scare-tactic show basically was making the point that British voters – at least 51% of them – were motivated by reactionary, right wing politics.

How about making the point that the British were simply voting for the right of self-determination?

You know. Like everyone in the United States has.

Because, if you or Rachel Maddow ever thought about it, the people of the United States would NEVER have voted to join an economic union like the EU if it meant giving up their rights like British citizens have.

Any American reading this need only read the EU charter. Then decide for themselves if they would agree to accede their rights to another governing body that they have not duly elected.

Well, Rachel Maddow and many others are telling the British they are WRONG for wanting to take back their rights.

Isn’t that exactly what we don’t want pontificating journalists from the Left or the Right doing?

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Maddow then went on to pronounce over and over that Friday’s international monetary and financial market downswings were End of the World stuff.

Uh, huh.

The MSNBC Braintrust strikes again.

The markets will adjust. And Maddow will still be sitting at her desk pontificating like a wobbly brunette-haired Q-tip.

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And someone remind Maddow that when the EU admitted Greece – and has now spent the past decade dealing with $Trillions and $Trillions of Euros just to keep that financial fiasco of a country afloat – THAT’S when the people of Britain got a clue that it was time to get the Brexit out of the EU.

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Of course, over on Fox the whole Brexit thing is being shadowed as a victory against ISIS.

There is currently an unusual sit-in going on at the House of Representatives over America and guns.

Democrats have decided it’s insane to give terrorists the right to buy assault weapons. And they’ve decided to make it clear to ALL Americans that over and over their Republican counterparts have specifically voted to allow everyone listed on the Terrorist Watch List to buy any gun and as many guns as they want.

Yes. Republicans are on record for supporting the Right To Bear Arms for TERRORISTS.

Why?

Because the National Rifle Association wants everyone on the Terrorist Watch List to be able to purchase any and as many guns, assault weapons, armor-piercing bullets, 100-round ammo magazines whose only purpose is for war and for the killing of mass amounts of human beings.

So, be aware. The Republican members of Congress have voted over and over.

And it is clear that now Republicans are representing ONLY the RIGHTS OF TERRORISTS.

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Ask YOUR Congressman: Why did you vote to allow terrorists to buy guns?

In what can only be described as Southern Genteel Justice, a Louisiana prosecutor said there was not enough evidence to proceed against 2 University of Alabama football players who were arrested in possession of a bit of weed and, more importantly, a stolen gun.

The prosecutor, in deciding against going forward, cited the fact that he didn’t want to hurt the players’ future football careers.